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Staff at Canada’s largest homeless shelter are assembling kits to ward off frostbite, as the return of colder weather brings a rise in shelter use in the city. While those at the Calgary Drop-In and Rehab Centre collect wool socks, toques, gloves, hand warmers, hand cream and lip balm, its operators are also beginning to […]

Calgary’s New Central Library entered its final chapter Tuesday, as officials celebrated the one-year countdown to the building’s grand opening. The doors of the $245-million landmark, built over a CTrain tunnel in the East Village, are slated to open Nov. 7, 2018 — ahead of schedule and under budget, four-and-a-half years after construction officially broke ground. […]

Up, up and up. The hard-hats, safety-vests and steel-toed boots turned corner after corner, climbing past open floors and views of future homes. Then past the floors reinforced with braces as concrete cured. And on through the orange-sheeted world of the top floor, wrapped in tarps with heaters blasting. A step outside, then up a […]

Calgary’s debt is slated to rise above $4 billion next year and then begin falling after 2016, as the city’s rapid growth stokes concerns that more public borrowing will be needed to keep infrastructure expanding apace. There’s room to grow debt further, even while the debt is rising toward $4.3 billion in 2016 to finance projects like new recreation centres and suburban water lines. Councillors are split — and not along simple liberal-conservative lines — on how to proceed when borrowing opportunities open.

Inner-city Calgary community Inglewood has earned the title of Canada’s greatest neighbourhood in a competition put on by the country’s city planners. The Canadian Institute of Planners announced the winners in its Great Places in Canada contest on Friday.

A new mixed-use residential project launches Saturday in Inglewood, setting standards for design innovation in this vibrant neighbourhood. Located on 9th Avenue S.E. between 14th and 15th Street, i.D. Inglewood is all about sustainable, inner-city living with a chi chi edge.

While everyone’s attention in the East Village mega makeover is focused on the new library ($245 million), the National Music Centre ($135 million) and the St. Patrick’s Island revitalization and bridge ($70 million), Fort Calgary’s makeover has been flying under the radar.

Most workdays, Josh Wasch and Barb Dundas change their work attire for gym clothes and sneakers when the clock strikes noon. “We usually cut off at Edmonton Trail,” says Wasch, who works with his weekday running partner Dundas at the Calgary Catholic School District. “We saw the crowd today, so we decided to come check it out.”

On the banks of the Bow River just east of Calgary’s downtown core something exciting is happening. It’s a transformation that’s turning heads with a master-planned urban village featuring walkability, sustainability and fantastic architecture at its core.

When I moved to Calgary it was supposed to be for six months. Six years later, it seems I’m staying for the foreseeable future. After paying (a seemingly ever-increasing) rent in what was originally an “up and coming” neighbourhood for the past 72 months, I’m kicking myself for not investing in my own property when I first arrived.

CALGARY - Quebec-based Groupe Germain Hospitalité is building its second hotel in Calgary with an ALT Hotel brand scheduled to open in East Village in 2017. The company opened its downtown Hôtel Le Germain Calgary in February 2010, right across the street from the Calgary Tower.

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